MRS. UNDERWATER: Dear Fido’s digestion seems to be utterly ruined.
CHORUS OF YOUNG LADIES: How too dreadfully awful!
MRS. UNDERWATER: Just to think of his eating a mule for breakfast, and then lunching on a stray lord that dropped off a horrid yacht. Dr. Pod said “Nothing could have saved dear Fido’s life if he had swallowed a duke.”
(From Brooklyn Life, October 19, 1895)